{"id":15636,"date":"2012-03-27T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2012-03-27T07:25:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:25:46","slug":"red-bull-to-discuss-ignored-team-orders-with-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-to-discuss-ignored-team-orders-with-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull to discuss ignored team orders with Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Bull will sit with Sebastian Vettel following reports the German deliberately ignored the team’s race instructions in Malaysia.<\/p>\n

The team was heard on the radio instructing the reigning back-to-back world champion to retire his car, ostensibly because of dangerously high brake temperatures.<\/p>\n

\"Sebastian-Vettel-car2\"So often were the calls unheeded that Vettel’s engineer Guillaume ‘Rocky’ Rocquelin ultimately declared it an “emergency”.<\/p>\n

A late-race retirement, with Vettel definitely out of the points following his clash with Narain Karthikeyan, would have allowed Red Bull to install a new gearbox in his car for the forthcoming event in China.<\/p>\n

Red Bull explained that Vettel did not hear the instructions due to a broken radio.<\/p>\n

But photographs have emerged that show those instructions were also reflected in Vettel’s end-of-lap pit boards.<\/p>\n

And the 24-year-old let slip immediately after the race: “Of course you can save the car, but I wanted to see the chequered flag.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s how it should be.”<\/p>\n

Bild newspaper surmises that Vettel “ignored his bosses’ orders”.<\/p>\n

Team boss Christian Horner commented: “We’ll talk about it.”<\/p>\n

The German newspaper said Vettel is due at the team’s Milton Keynes headquarters at the end of this week, for time on the Red Bull driver simulator prior to Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper said 2012 has been “a nightmare” for Vettel so far, as the once-dominant driver “has become just one of the other drivers”.<\/p>\n

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